Feeling sick and going gray? Researchers have established a link between hair color and the immune system.

Scientists at NIH and U of Alabama have discovered a connection between gray hair, innate immunity and the transcription factor MITF.
This discovery could result in developing treatment for gray hair and skin diseases such as vitiligo.

While studying genes that affect how our stem cells are maintained over time, they looked into MITF, which regulates melanocyte interferon response signals - the body’s immune defences which rally to fight infection, and found the connection..

Link: [future-science.com]